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Originally Posted by dcbone86
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How is Dark Sun cyberpunk?
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That's not what I said; what I said was that it was that it was:
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Originally Posted by loramin
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almost like a cyberpunk-styled fantasy world.
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Dark Sun was a dark, gritty, and "punk-ish" variation of traditional fantasy in the same way that cyberpunk was a dark/gritty/punk-ish departure from traditional sci-fi. Obviously there was no cyberpunk technology, but magic took it's place. For instance, in cyberpunk a central theme is the idea that technology is not universally good, but in fact has a dark side which is destroying the world. Athas (the Dark Sun world) was literally destroyed by magic, specifically by wizard-kings (who are somewhat analogous to cyberpunk corporations).
There's more too, like Dark Sun's visual aesthetic (which is clearly punk-influenced, and is far more cyberpunk than steampunk or some other punk sub-genre) ... but I'm not going to say that Dark Sun
was cyberpunk, because it wasn't; it was just "almost ... cyberpunk-styled".